Improvement in false mantels



l. T. FLEEHEARTY.

False Mantels.

No. 139,137. PatentedMay 20,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOHN T. FLEEHEARTY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO CHARLES S. COLLINS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FALSE MANTELS Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 139,137, dated May 20, 1873 application filed January 23, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. FLEEHEARTY, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in False Mantels and Water-Evaporators for Stoves, of which the following is a specification; and I do hereby declare that in the same is con tained a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.A

My invention relates, tirst, to a combined false mantel and water-evaporator, having for its double object the protection ofthe mantelpiece from the heat of the stove, and the furnishing of a receptacle for Water, by the evaporation of which an agreeable moisture is imparted to the atmosphere ofthe apartment.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specication, Figure l represents a front view of my invention; Fig. 2 represents a top view of the same, Fig. 3 illustrating in cross-section the false mantel and evaporator, and its relation to the stove-front and the mantelpiece proper.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts of the invention in all the views.

A represents the combined false mantel and water-evaporator, consisting of a closed box, made of cast or galvanized sheet iron, tin, copper, or other substance capable of oti'ering resistance to the action of Water and heat. The mantel-piece proper is represented by F. The combined false man tel an d evaporator is placed, as shown in Fig. 3, directly over the upper mounting G of the stove, to the shape of which part of the stove and the mantel-piece F it may be made to conform, Whether straight, as

more holes, E, through which the waterA to be` evaporated is admitted, and the vapor arising from the heated water allowed egress into the apartment. D D are ornamental knobs, affording means for the removal or handling of the combined false mantel and evaporator. y `A small hole, c, stopped by a plug, is placed in one end of the box, through which opening thc Water may be drawn oil' at pleasure.

Having described my invention,what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combined false mantel and waterevaporator A, with the means of attachment to the stove, holes E, knobs D, and opening a, substantially' as and for the purposes named.

In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name, in the city of Baltimore, this 22d day ot' January, in the year of our Lord g JOHN T. FLEEHEARTY. Witnesses: i

EDW. HAYES,

Trios. MURDooH. 

